Illegal logging and legality verification the FLEGT/VPA as new modes of governance

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1 International Conference: Illegal logging and legality verification the FLEGT/VPA as new modes of governance Copenhagen, 6 th and 7 th December 2012 Tentative Programme Thursday 6 th Registration/coffee & tea Conference Opening by Heiko Liedeker, Head of FLEGT and REDD Unit, European Forest Institute, Prof. Niels Elers Koch, University of Copenhagen, President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and Prof. Ben Cashore, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Break Are Timber Legality Programs Catalyzing a New Global Forest Law? Key Note presentation by Prof. Errol Meidinger, State University of New York at Buffalo Aspects of the EU FLEGT Action Plan. Key Note presentation by Aimi Lee, Policy Analyst, EU FLEGT Facility Asia Lunch Parallel sessions I, II and III (see session programme) Parallel sessions I, II and III, continued (see session programme) Reception and conference dinner 1

2 Friday 7 th Coffee & tea Legality verification and Policy Baskets: Forward Looking Policy Analysis for an unpredictable World. Key Note presentation by Prof. Benjamin Cashore, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Transnational Governance Interactions: Forest Certification, Public Procurement and FLEGT. Key Note presentation by Senior Research Fellow Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Director, Global Governance Research Break Program, Fridtjof Nansen Institute Parallel sessions IV and V (see session programme) Conference wrap-up and closure 2

3 Thursday 6 th Parallel session I: EU Timber Regulation (EUTR), Lacey Act and beyond Jani Holopainen: Barriers on the Effectiveness of EU Timber Regulation (No 995/2010) to Promote Certified Wood Products Uptake in the Market: Perspectives from Finland Karin Buhmann: From Multi-Level Governance to Multi- Level Regulation? FLEGT and the EU Timber Regulation Jonathan Zeitlin: Assembling an experimentalist regime: Transnational governance interactions in the forest sector Saskia Ozinga: FLEGT VPAs: a road to lasting reform? Andreas Ottitsch: Due Diligence Due Care A Tale of Two Unions Emily Unwin: Considering how the EU Timber Regulation may inform systems of governance for the sustainable production of commodities produced in forest ecosystems Parallel session II (Venue: A ): Legality verification, trade agreements and possible effects Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne: Monitoring impacts of FLEGT VPA methodologies for building, checking and operationalizing an indicator framework Mary Hobley / Marlene Buchy: Global Environmental Governance and Poverty: Can a trade agreement such as the VPA reduce poverty? Lucio Brotto: Overview of ethical criteria of financial institutions: forest investments and international tropical wood trade Sophia Lousie Carodenuto: FLEGT VPA Compliance Incentives for Private Forestry Sector in Cameroon Feja Lesniewska: The potential for applying law and governance lessons learnt from FLEGT VPAs to related commodities driving deforestation Yu Huang: Forecasting the impacts of US Lacey Act Amendments and EU Timber Regulation on China's wood products industry 3

4 Parallel session III (Venue: A ): Illegal logging, FLEGT and domestic market issues Marieke Wit: Chainsaw milling, domestic timber markets and the VPA: dealing with policy options and challenges Wil de Jong: Illegal logging and Bolivia's domestic markets: The legally allowable versus the informally practical Charlotte Benneker: Legalizing small-scale timber logging in DR Congo Tuukka Castrén : Forest governance in producer countries: Creating the right conditions for controlling illegal logging and trade in illegal timber Christian Pilegaard Hansen: Revisiting illegal logging and the size of the domestic market: the case of Ghana Bastien Revel: VPA Gap analysis Friday 7 th Parallel session IV: FLEGT and forest governance - country case studies Eric Lartey: National Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade Processes: Influencing the Trajectories of Participation in West and Central Africa Iben Nathan: FLEGT, multi-level forest governance and weak states: The case of Cambodia Astrid Wodschow: Voluntary partnership agreements in the EU s Forest Law Enforcement and Governance action plan: What ccharacterises a good participatory process? Lessons learnt from Cameroon Kirsten Carlsen: Is the Ghana-EU FLEGT VPA unimplementable? The institutional ethnography of producing success 4

5 Parallel session V (Venue: A ): Trading in legal timber national and transnational governance issues Chris Beeko: The EU-Ghana VPA Agreement. A Comprehensive Policy Analysis of its Design Krystof Obidzinski: Can FLEGT/VPA effectively ensure legality both in export and domestic timber market? Lessons from Indonesia Nongni Bakker: The legal and institutional constraints to the implementation of the voluntary partnership agreement FLEGT in Cameroon Christina Hygom Lillebæk: Identifying forest legality risk - Assisting operators to comply with the EU Timber Regulation 5